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Monarchs Swimming Results At the Nike Cup Championships.

November 21, 1999
By ODU Athletics

CHAPEL HILL, NC (Nov. 21) -- Old Dominion's men's swimming and diving team finished
in fifth-place after the final day of competition in the Nike Cup Swimming
and Diving Championships at the University of North Carolina. The women's
team, led by freshman Jamie D'Agostino's (Ardsley, NY) second-place finish
in the women's 1650-free (16:49.03), wound up ninth.

The #23 North Carolina Tar Heels won the men's division with 1072 points,
followed by LSU with 735.50, Texas A&M with 713.50, Syracuse with 393.5
and Old Dominion with 249. The 18th-ranked UNC women's team won the
women's division with 1261 points, followed by LSU (713), Kentucky (457),
Connecticut (385.5) and Syracuse (318).

On the third and final day of competition, the Monarchs received solid
performances both in the pool and on the diving boards. Senior Jimmy
Sullivan (West Palm Beach, FL) finished in fourth-place in the men's 1650
with a time of 15:55.98, while freshman John Wall (Hoover, AL) finished in
eighth-place with a time of 16:08.55.

For the Lady Monarchs, D'Agostino blistered the field with a time of
16:49.03 in the 1650, her second top-five performance of the competition,
while freshman Anne Chapman (Springfield, VA) finished 11th in the 1650
with a time of 17:45.79. Sarah Mooney (Riverside, RI) turned in a
13th-place finish in the women's 200-yard backstroke with a time of
2:06.51.

The Nike Cup Championships mark the end of swimming competition in 1999
for Old Dominion, the teams return to action in 2000 when they swim NC
State and Texas Christian in Raleigh, NC, on January 21.